Posted on 09/10/2001 9:23:00 AM PDT by RaceBannon
FAIR Action Alert
September 7, 2001
Section 245(i) Passed in Senate--House Will Vote Early Next Week
At the request of President Bush, the Senate passed S. 778, the Section 245(i) extension bill by unanimous consent on Thursday night. Section 245(i) permits illegal aliens who have established an employment or familial relationship while in the U.S. illegally to adjust their status with the INS after payment of a $1,000 fee. It also allows illegal aliens to avoid the State Department background checks for other immigrants coming from overseas.
As in previous years, the immigration lobby and now President Bush are trying to revive this loophole as a backdoor approach of amnesty. Many of those who have supported “temporary” extension of Section 245(i) are really after a permanent extension, thereby institutionalizing illegal immigration as an avenue for gaining permanent residence. This is manifest in the fact that S. 778 allows additional illegal aliens who were not earlier eligible for the provision to benefit as well.
House Republican leaders, under pressure from the Bush Administration, have agreed to go along with the measure the Senate passed. The House will take up the measure early next week, perhaps on Monday. Bush said this week that he would like to see Section 245(i) passed as a good will gesture to Mexican President Vicente Fox.
Under the compromise, the 245(i) program would be extended through April 2002, or four months after the Immigration and Naturalization Service establishes regulations for the program. The extension would apply to illegal aliens who meet the program's requirements by August 15 by proving they are related to a legal U.S. resident or have a job or the promise of a job in the United States.
What You Need to Do
Contact your Representatives (Capitol Switchboard 202-224-3121) and tell them you are opposed to an extension of Section 245(i).
Talking Points
Section 245(i) Encourages Illegal Immigration—It sends the message that it is OK to break the law as long as you can pay $1,000 to the INS.
Section 245(i) Upends U.S. Law—Congress in 1996 declared that those who overstay their visas or are otherwise illegal aliens should be barred from legal entry into the country for three or 10 years depending on the extent of the violation of U.S. immigration law. Section 245(i) allows illegal aliens to evade this penalty. Section 245(i) Harms Legal Immigrants—Those applicants patiently staying in their home countries awaiting an immigrant visa, as U.S. immigration law requires, will be forced to wait even longer.
You can visit our website at www.fairus.org and go to the Legislative Action Center to find your representatives and local media contact information. For more information, call FAIR’s legislative department at (202) 328-7004.
It's even worse than that I think. If they just took it as a separate country or reclaimed it for Mexico, we would be rid of them as far as welfare payments, we wouldn't have to build hospitals for them and supply huge amounts of federal funds. Culturally it will be Mexico, but they will demand their "share" of US federal funds which they will get by being a large voting block in the US but they also will be voting in Mexico.
Looking back on it we haven't had for several years, but at least they talked conservative. Now they don't even bother to pretend to be conservative.
We do have two wings of the same party.
WarHawk42
Two things. Bush is riding the coattails of fox thinking he will win the hispanic vote and he is caving to big money interests who want the cheap labor. The electorate who voted for him be damned.
Fox has the weirdest plan of making the entire SW USA under the jurisdiction of Mexico by giving dual citizenship to only those from Mexico living there, they'll be voting in both the US and Mexican elections, culturally the SW will be Mexican but they'll be entitled to all the US social programs.
They will be a burden on social programs, and who do they see as the guardian of social programs for the poor? Not the republicans. They will vote in their self interests and that will be democrat. If I were dependent on the government for my survival I would vote for the democrats.
WarHawk42
Bush doesn't know that "partner" doesn't mean "pushover".
That's one of the problems. People talk about $10 a head lettuce, but that's a bargain compared to what we will be paying in taxes to support a very large influx of low to no income citizens into the population. Even if all illegal immigrants work those low paying jobs those in the bottom 20% tax bracket actually receive back more than they pay in taxes. That money is coming from someone elses paycheck who is higher up the tax bracket.
Somewhere else it costs us is in infrastructure. The immigrants will still be using all those publicly funded services from education to medical care, to transportation. Yet if many of them are on welfare or minimum wage jobs they will not be paying their way. Others will.
Before all you lib freepers start calling me a xenophobic hate mongering neonazi racist hitler clone, let me say that I understand these immigrants motivation. They wish to better their lives and most of them are willing to work hard.
I believe though that our GOVERNMENT allowing them to cut the line and unintentionally reduce the quality of life for those of us who are citizens is wrong.
Ok NOW you can call me a xenophobic etc. etc.
WarHawk42
I don't know where you guys are finding all this cheap lettuce, I with I could----here's it's almost always over $1 a head. What seems pretty cheap are potatoes, for the same money we can sometimes get 5 pounds of those. Food was cheaper in the days there weren't millions of illegal immigrants.
I don't claim it is that cheap. That is the mantra of those supporting illegal immigration. My point is it isn't as cheap as they think when you factor in the hidden costs involved.
WarHawk42
Right ON ! I say feck lettuce. The Republic just CANNOT keep absorbing all these people. They are going to kill the golden goose!
I think you have come up with a valid point. Tahe a strong look HERE
That's just what i think he did. Conservative indeed.
Listen to Limbaugh lately? He seems to have turned apage on this, wonder how long it will last, though...
JUAN TERM!!!
Scuse me, but if American Citizens were offered these jobs, they would take them, I'll bet Also, those on unemployment would have to, those on welfare would have to, there are many scenarios to fill these quotas.
Why do they have to be illegal aliens to do this? I picked Tobacco in Ct when growing up. Now, they fly in Jamacans or Dominicans on work visas to do the work, LEGALLY, and when the season is over, they go home. We can surely do that to lettuce pickers, eh?
If you aint gonna stay, why would you need a background check??
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